Biographical Memoirs, Volum 2National Academy of Sciences, 1886 List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926. |
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Pàgina 258 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands : they shall perish, but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed ; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Pàgina 359 - A physical principle has been put-forth" by Prof. Draper,' which seems quite adequate to explain these phenomena. — It appears fully capable of proof, that " if two liquids communicate with one another in a capillary tube, or in a porous or parenchymatous structure, and have for that tube or structure different chemical affinities, movement will ensue ; that liquid which has the most energetic affinity will move with the greatest velocity, and may even drive the other liquid before it.
Pàgina 372 - It is instructive to observe in this memoir how Draper's exact mind revolted against the misuse, by writers on electricity, of the words "tension...
Pàgina 363 - For this reason they merit a much more critical examination than has yet been given them ; for by their aid we may be able to ascertain points of great interest in other departments of science. Thus, if we are ever able to acquire certain knowledge respecting the physical state of the sun and other stars, it will be by an examination of the light they emit.
Pàgina 117 - THE wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the Many, honored by the Few ; To count as naught in World, or Church, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great...
Pàgina 236 - Life has been very sweet to me. It comforts me. How I pity those to whom memory brings no pleasure!" He had " set his house in order," saying he knew it would be but a short time before death would claim him; but he was ready to go at any hour or day. He leaves the memory of a pure life and a heart full of "exercised humanity.
Pàgina 316 - Agassiz commenced his investigations on the glacier of the Aar) were fruitful beyond expectation. He says, that from the examination of the glaciers of the Aar, Rhone, Gries, Brenva and others, he learned (1) the law of the moraines ; (2), that of the more rapid flow of the center of the glacier than the sides; (3), that of the more rapid flow of the top than the bottom ; (4), that of the laminated or ribboned structure (
Pàgina 331 - Asia, Europe, and North America, are the three grand stages of humanity in its march through the ages. Asia is the cradle where man passed his infancy, under the authority of law, and where he learned his dependence upon a sovereign master. Europe is the school where his youth was trained, where he waxed in strength and knowledge, grew to manhood, and learned at once his liberty and his moral responsibility. America is the theatre of his activity during the period of manhood; the land where he applies...
Pàgina 317 - Swiss erratic phenomena, for their separate parts of a general survey) has recently been printed in volume xm (1883) of the Bulletin of the Neuchatel Society of Natural Sciences. In 1842 this manuscript was deposited, by motion of Agassiz, in the archives of the Neuchatel Society, and in 1848 it was withdrawn by Guyot when he left for America. It is to be regretted that publication was not substituted in 1842 for burial. Its recent publication was made by the request of Guyot, early in 1883, from...
Pàgina 321 - Neuchatel," in his Travels through the Alps of Savoy, 1843 (first edition) and 1845 (second edition), page 28. Desor, in the same journal, XXXV, 308, 1843, in a paper on Agassiz's recent glacier researches, introduces a translation of Guyot's account of the banded structure, but cuts it short at the words "opposite sides of a transverse valley," leaving off the explanatory remarks which follow.